Vintage P&H Service Pawling and Harnischfeger Heavy Metal Advertising Sign RARE for Sale

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Vintage P&H Service Pawling and Harnischfeger Heavy Metal Advertising Sign RARE For Sale

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Vintage P&H Service Pawling and Harnischfeger Heavy Metal Advertising Sign RARE:
$365.00

Vintage P&H Service Pawling and Harnischfeger Heavy Metal Advertising Sign RARE Collectible Deeply Embossed

Measures 18" x 9 1/2"

After being recruited as tool makers in the early 1880s, and some stops and starts, a turning point forAlonzo Pawling and Henry Harnischfeger their business was in 1887 after the Edward P. Allis Company burned down. When the new foundry was erected, it was equipped with two rope-driven overhead traveling cranes. One of the cranes fell to the floor after a girder twisted, killing the operator and injuring others.

P&H replaced the rope-and-pulley mechanisms with a simpler system of motor-transmission sets applied to the crane’s hoist, trolley and bridge-drive functions. The crane produced immediate performance and reliability gains for the customer and soon after, other manufacturing firms, warehouse operations and railroad maintenance shops began to approach P&H for more such cranes. Pawling and Harnischfeger had a product of their own. As they expanded their business in making cranes, they began making the electric motors and controllers that were required for the cranes they were building, as well as severe-duty industrial applications. P&H AC and DC motors continue to be the prime motors on virtually all P&H manufactured equipment today.

Measures:18" x 9 1/2"

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